...N AND NOTES EDITED BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, L.L.D., P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Stre... ... he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the “New England Courant.” To this journal he became a contributor, and later ... ...al editor. But the brothers quarreled, and Benjamin ran away, going first to New York, and thence to Philadel phia, where he arrived in October, 1723... ...turned to his former trade, and shortly set up a print ing house of his own from which he published “The Pennsyl vania Gazette,” to which he contrib... ...gent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government from the hands of the proprietors. In London he actively opposed the pro ... ...them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements. Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state o... ...’d and strengthen’d the clamor for more money, and they happening to have no writers among them that were able to answer it, their opposition slacken’... ...h in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numer ous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. Temperance, for... ...view frequently reprinted in it extracts from the Spectator, and other moral writers; and sometimes publish’d little pieces of my own, which had been ...

... Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its nominal editor....